Pro-Kremlin media technologist Dolgov says he was fired after interviewing Wagner PMC owner Prigozhin

Present Time ^ | May 25, 2023 | Staff Report

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Pro-Kremlin media technologist Konstantin Dolgov said he was fired from the Cart ONLINE propaganda project after an interview with Wagner PMC owner Yevgeny Prigozhin. He wrote about this in his telegram channel.

In that interview, the businessman criticized the Russian military leadership, including Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Prigozhin said that the Russian authorities, instead of the goal of demilitarizing Ukraine declared in February 2022, achieved the opposite effect, and the Ukrainian army became one of the strongest in the world. He also stated that during the entire war in Ukraine, 20,000 mercenaries of the Wagner PMC were killed, half of them were recruited prisoners. The interview aired on the evening of Tuesday, May 23rd.

Dolgov claims that the next morning he was informed of the dismissal. “And they said in plain text: I was fired because of the interview with Prigozhin,” he said.

“Ordinary producers of the project admitted to me that the decision to dismiss was made after calls “from above,” he continued. “It seems that I know what is happening. his answers. But they, apparently, cannot do anything to Yevgeny Viktorovich. Therefore, they decided to win back on the interviewer. "

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